Victor Type 1 Cabinets to be scrapped.

[MarkELynch]

A snippet from the Victor Meeting notes stored at the Hagley Museum.

Victor was still holding 1,959 obsolete Victor Type 1 cabinets in early 1929 and apparently preferred to recover 400 square feet of warehouse space. Where is that way-back machine when we need it!

Mark

[phonojim]

What is a type 1 cabinet?

[gramophone-georg]

10-50 style cabinet for the Type 1 changer.

[MarkELynch]

The notes refer to the open horn Victor 1 cabinets.

The Victor 10-50 cabinets were not completely obsolete, plus 1,594 cabinets would cover more than 15,672 square feet, not 400.

Are you just having fun with us, George?

Mark

[gramophone-georg]

The notes refer to the open horn Victor 1 cabinets.

The Victor 10-50 cabinets were not completely obsolete, plus 1,594 cabinets would cover more than 15,672 square feet, not 400.

Are you just having fun with us, George?

Mark

No, not really, LOL. I did wonder about the square footage though... I thought maybe it was a typo.
To my understanding the 10-50 was referred to as the Type 1 changer, hence the association. I did not fathom that they had Victor 1 cabinets sitting around that late in the game! I figured that since the "Type 1" changer was superseded by the "Type 2" in 1928, of course they'd want to unload those big cabinets.

Color me stupid.

[Inigo]

Could be something like unfinished small horn model cabinets, piled in groups of five, one square foot per pile on the floor, or something alike. What a pity...